Tennessee · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,989,019 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($659,045). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley Inc does
Mission
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. Is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our core programs include adoption, pethelp including low-cost wellness, pet food pantry, foster, volunteer, traveling tails transport and coalition building. We transfer in at-risk animals from over 50 shelters & rescues across our region and beyond to our shelter in knoxville, tn in an effort to increase the live release rate. We provide veterinary care including emergency and routine medical exams, vaccines, microchips & heartwork treatment. Our live release rate is 98%. We impact over 2,000 animals and their families each year through our program support.
$859,126 spent$1,510,602 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $859,126.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $2.8M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ryan Hughes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $237k → $236k.
14 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 47% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2021 50% · 2022 62% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $245k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,989,019 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($659,045). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,989,019 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $659,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing